“There once was a brainy baboon, Who always breathed down a bassoon, For he said, It appears, That in billions of years, I shall certainly hit on a tune.” Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, English Astronomer, Physicist, Mathematician & Philosopher.
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The bassoon has a very similar history and development to that of the oboe. It came from the Dulcian, around the time that the Shawm was beginning to be replaced by the oboe. In Italy in the late 17th Century, it was named the Fagotto, in France the Fagottez, and in England the Bassoon.
Played using a double-reed, the bassoon is usually made out of European Maple wood, and has a conical bore which doubles back on itself, making the pitch deeper. It originally had just three or four keys, but during the 18th Century, it began to have six keys. Mozart’s Bassoon Concerto for example, was written for a model with six keys.
At the turn of the 19th Century, bassoons had eight keys, and during the following years, many more keys were added, and two models emerged, the German Heckel Style and the French Buffet Style. These are the two models on which our modern day bassoons are based.
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 963360
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 1009703
Jazz
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 1067388
Konzertwerk
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1347803
The Crooks Anonymous Bassoon Quartet Series Vol. 14
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 563151
for: Bassoon, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 829635
Bassoon and Piano
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 1011684
for: Bassoon, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 829384
Bassoon
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 830404
Fanna VIII,15
Stimmensatz 3.3.2.3.Cembalo
for: Bassoon, strings, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 1555671
for: Bassoon
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1017115
for: Bassoon, piano
Score
Item no.: 1137461
for: Bassoon
Solostimme
Item no.: 1622905
for: Bassoon
Item no.: 874754
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 971048
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 969777
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 869466
for: Wind instrument
Item no.: 200997
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 1166138
for bassoon and string quintet or string orchestra
for: Bassoon, string quintet [string orchestra]
Stimmensatz Violine I, Violine II, Viola, Violoncello, Kontrabass
Item no.: 756852
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 485566
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 470744
(Winds)
for: Bassoon, piano
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 275660
for: Bassoon, piano
Ensemble score, solo part
Item no.: 159498
BWV 160
Cantata
for: Voice (tenor), violin, bassoon, basso continuo
Single part Bassoon
Item no.: 478541
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 306185
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 1070695
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 1133495
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 869321
basson et piano
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 1071394
for: 2 bassoons
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1144689
Klassik
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 1195484
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 1141032
Klassik
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1102864
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 1118875
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 1167158
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 297228
for: 2 bassoons
Item no.: 461187
Sinfonia
Sinfonia aus der Kantate "Du Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ"
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 231607
Das Blaeserschiff
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 395022
for: 2 bassoons
Ensemble score
Item no.: 486336
for: 3 bassoons, double bassoon
Score, Parts
Item no.: 149883
for: Bassoon
Item no.: 216904
for: Bassoon
Music score
Item no.: 658014
Nø9 Allegro Nø10 Recitatif
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 388314
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 1119391
basson et piano
for: Bassoon, piano
Buch
Item no.: 1071288